> A pre-industrial farm background of wind, animal calls, bird songs, water flow sounds like paradise in comparison
No. It just "«sounds»". I am typing in real time a couple dozen yards from a stream, it is much more annoying than a motorway at reasonable distance (which, as others have noted, means "kilometers" - as people who got unused to the outdoors lost the idea of how easily sound propagates without barriers). It includes even more annoying parts like the rumble that falls create through the landscape acoustic. Animal calls here are the typical obtuse racial slurs barked from villas (occasionally cries of terror from the woods). Wild boars are fortunately very polite sound wise. But birds, with their shrieks, up to cuckoos deejaying around, can be the most annoying - even more when you suspect that they are advertising for mating, the fixated things. But speaking of texture: oh the insects. Go into the right woods in the right season, and see if your thought can be louder than the buzz. Speaking of natural background can be as "innocent" as dreaming of that fashion model unaware of her halitosis.
> paradise ... most pleasant place conceivable
The idea of the "garden" was coined by people who lived surrounded by sand, burned their feet on sand, ate sand and drank sand juice. And thought "If only I had the luxury to live through picking fruits and enjoy a bit of shade".
> No one ever thought
Just generalization and evident pitfalls, there was a guy who loved the smell of napalm in the morning.
It's 75 dB+ inside my home if I open the windows. Roadside it can breach 100 dB.
I won't pick your comment apart as you did mine since in my opinion it comes off as rude. But it's weird imagining 'gardens' are pleasant only from the point of view of some weird caricature of Arrakis fremen when paradeiso was a Persian word. I.e., from nomadic peoples traveling the highlands and mountain valleys of central Asia.
I hope you can escape from the nature sounds you find so unpleasant. I won't dispute the fact that soundscape preferences are subjective. We obviously disagree on that.
> paradeiso was a Persian word [...] nature sounds you find so unpleasant
Do not miss that that that word meant "enclosure", "a walled thing" - your garden, something you manage: they probably wanted to leave out moles, shrieking bellbirds, drumkits an possibly even clamouring carts.
So, it is not a matter of choosing "a hit in the head or a poke in the eye", it is that sounds can be annoying, you have to be proportionally thick skinned to bear them, whatever they are, it does not matter if artificial or natural, it matters if the pattern rhythm insistence frequencies and loudness are more disturbing than not.
> It's 75 dB+ inside my home if I open the windows. Roadside it can breach 100 dB
You are strongly suggesting that your diet overly rich in salt makes you crave for sugar... But it remains like in Bertrand Blier's Buffet Froid: "It's the cement everywhere, the city, the alienation, that is making me insane! I want to hear the birds...". Next scene: all laying in the countryside. "It's humid!..."
That depends on the distance.
> A pre-industrial farm background of wind, animal calls, bird songs, water flow sounds like paradise in comparison
No. It just "«sounds»". I am typing in real time a couple dozen yards from a stream, it is much more annoying than a motorway at reasonable distance (which, as others have noted, means "kilometers" - as people who got unused to the outdoors lost the idea of how easily sound propagates without barriers). It includes even more annoying parts like the rumble that falls create through the landscape acoustic. Animal calls here are the typical obtuse racial slurs barked from villas (occasionally cries of terror from the woods). Wild boars are fortunately very polite sound wise. But birds, with their shrieks, up to cuckoos deejaying around, can be the most annoying - even more when you suspect that they are advertising for mating, the fixated things. But speaking of texture: oh the insects. Go into the right woods in the right season, and see if your thought can be louder than the buzz. Speaking of natural background can be as "innocent" as dreaming of that fashion model unaware of her halitosis.
> paradise ... most pleasant place conceivable
The idea of the "garden" was coined by people who lived surrounded by sand, burned their feet on sand, ate sand and drank sand juice. And thought "If only I had the luxury to live through picking fruits and enjoy a bit of shade".
> No one ever thought
Just generalization and evident pitfalls, there was a guy who loved the smell of napalm in the morning.